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...total of twelve Hitachi and five Mitsubishi employees took part in separate conspiracies to transport stolen IBM property to Japan. The bureau arrested five of these suspects, but the rest were in Japan last week. Among those accused are several high-ranking officials who allegedly approved the scheme, including Kisaburo Nakazawa, general manager of Hitachi's main computer manufacturing plant at Kanagawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, from the FBI: Japanscam | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Empire ever gets, Japanese election returns were not utterly devoid of meaning. The dominant militarists remained Japan's actual rulers last week, but the final count showed that the Minseito Party, favored by the Government, had ousted the strong Seiyukai Party from first place. Notably President Kisaburo Suzuki of the Seiyukai Party himself failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios will go to the Minseito, nominally a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Digressions from Election | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Among Japanese who did disembowel themselves last week in the good old-fashioned way was Captain Kisaburo Koyanagi, Assistant Naval Attache of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. Reason: "private." The following cryptic utterance arrived from Moscow the next morning: "It is needless to state a painful impression has been created in foreign diplomatic circles . . . when parties grow so rowdy that neighbors protest, the case becomes a matter of public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Such Vulgarity! | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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